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Show -A. j A BEBJTBME STHLT q I lit) THORNTON W. BURGESS JERRY LOOKS FOR A PLACE TO BUILD OF COURSE Jerry Muskrat was Joking when he asked Peter Rabbit if he had come over to the Smiling Pool to help him build a house. He knew that Peter couldn't help If he wanted to, and he wouldn't want to if he could. There is no getting away from the fact that when real work is concerned Peter Rabbit is lazy. All his neighbors neigh-bors know this. "Are you really going to build a new house?" asked Peter, his eyes wide with curiosity and interest. "Of course," replied Jerry. "How where the old one was?" Inquired Peter. "Use your thinker, if you've got one," replied Jerry. "What happened hap-pened to my old house?" Peter remembered the spring flood and how the water had risen until it ran so swiftly that it had swept Jerry's house away in pieces, leaving Jerry homeless. It was plain that Jerry had learned a lesson. les-son. "I won't build at all if 1 can't find any but the old places," said Jerry. "Perhaps there won't be any Hood next year," said Peter hopefully. "And perhaps there will," retorted re-torted Jerry. "Perhaps is a mighty uncertain word and I don't want any perhapses in my new house. Now if you will excuse me I'll go look for a place to build." Jerry dived from the Big Rock Into the Smiling Pool and Peter could see his little black head In the moonlight as he swam for the opposite shore. Then he disappeared disap-peared among the Black Shadows, but now and then a faint splash told Peter that he was still there and very busy. All around that side of the Smiling Pool he traveled, trav-eled, now running In and out among the rushes where the water was very shallow, now swimming where it .was too deep for wading And all the time his shrewd little eyes were taking note of everythi'-g which might be of advantage for the new house he Intended to build. . 1933. by T. W. Burgess. WNTJ Service. "Use Your Thinker if You've Got One," Replied Jerry. do you suppose I would get along next winter without a house?" "I didn't know but you would use your castle In the bank," replied Peter. ''I could, but I don't want to," replied re-plied Jerry. "In the first place It Is in the bank of the Laughing Brook, and that isn't where I want to be, I want to be down here In the Smiling Pool. In the second place I like a good big comfortable house like the one that was swept away by the flood last spring. So 1 mean to have another and better one for this coming winter." Of course Peter was all interest at once. "Where are you going to build It?" he asked. "I don't know. Where would you build it If you were In my place?" asked Jerry. "Why don't you build It right |